Kombüse — meaning in English

English meaning

• caboose noun The last car on a freight train, once used as sleeping and cooking quarters for the crew.
• galley noun The kitchen area on a ship or aircraft.

Senses

Kombüse is used for these senses in English:

• caboose (obsolete, nautical) A small galley or cookhouse on the deck of a small vessel.
• galley (nautical) The cookroom or kitchen and cooking apparatus of a vessel or aircraft; sometimes on merchant vessels called the caboose.

caboose — full definition

1. noun The last car on a freight train, once used as sleeping and cooking quarters for the crew.
2. noun (informal, humorous) A youngest child born well after the others; also, slang for the buttocks.

galley — full definition

1. noun The kitchen area on a ship or aircraft.
2. noun A long, low, oar-powered ship historically used in the Mediterranean.
3. noun In printing, a proof copy of text set in type before final layout.

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